"I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately."

-- Barbara Park

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“Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn't always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.”
“The best kind of travel â€“ the kind I wanted to experience â€“ involves a particular state of mind, in which one is not merely open to the occurrence of the unexpected, but to deep involvement in the unexpected, indeed, open to the possibility of having oneâ€™s life changed forever by a chance encounter.”
“If I ever get Manziel disease, I want all of you to smack me in the head with your microphones”

Source : "Jameis Winston hits on Manziel, Major League at FSU media day" by Ken Bradley, www.sportingnews.com. August 11, 2013.
“Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored”
“Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.”
“Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.”
“I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria.”
“Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.”

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